Anatomy of a Workspace
A Workspace is a saved, shareable surface built on top of your Catalog — the place where you turn scoped catalog data into analysis. Before diving into specific workflows, it helps to see how the pieces fit together.
How the pieces fit together
- The Catalog is your master data — every Product, Supplier, and Site Altana knows about for your organization, organized by Tier and labeled by Network Type.
- From the Catalog you filter the data and create a Workspace — a saved working surface built on top of it.
- A Workspace contains one or more Lenses, shown as tabs across the top. A Lens is a saved configuration of charts, tables, filters, and columns. The default analytical lens is an Exposure lens.
- Inside an Exposure lens you get charts (interactive — clicking a value filters everything below) and tables (Exposed Products, T1 Suppliers, Exposure Sources).
- You drill from any table row into a side sheet to explore the network graph, the exposure reasoning, and to record your assessment via statuses and notes.
Tables in an Exposure lens
A workspace opens to a lens (tab). The default analytical lens type is the Exposure lens (for example, All Exposures). The top of the lens holds the charts; below them sit three tables, each with its own columns:
- Exposed Products — Name, Exposed Suppliers, Exposure Sources, Aggregate Product.
- T1 Suppliers — Organization Name, Status, Exposure Sources, Products Affected.
- Exposure Sources — Source Company Name, Source Status, Tier, Suppliers Affected, Products Affected, Type, Network Type, Proximity.
Key terms
- Workspace — a data-exploration surface scoped to a set of products or suppliers, organized into tabs.
- Tab / Lens — a tab is a view within a workspace, powered by a lens; a lens is the saved configuration behind it (for example, No Lens or All Exposures).
- Chart — an interactive summary across the top of a tab; clicking it filters everything below.
- Table — the detailed rows at the bottom of a tab, filtered by the charts above.
- Side sheet — the detail panel that opens from a row (product, supplier, or exposure source).
- Exposure source — the specific company driving risk into your value chain.